(March 26, 2015 at 10:21 pm)urlawyer Wrote: So the question then becomes why would god even allow the babies to come into existence if they're just going to go to hell?
Yet again, the good colonel provides:
Quote:I would not for my life destroy one star of human hope, but I want it so that when a poor woman rocks the cradle and sings a lullaby to the dimpled darling, she will not be compelled to believe that ninety-nine chances in a hundred she is raising kindling wood for hell.
-- Robert Green Ingersoll, "How To Be Saved" (1880)
At the age of five, Skagra decided emphatically that God did not exist. This revelation tends to make most people in the universe who have it react in one of two ways - with relief or with despair. Only Skagra responded to it by thinking, 'Wait a second. That means there's a situation vacant.'